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Yashika Graham – 100,00 Poets for Change
Yashika Graham reads her poem Conscience at the Poetry Society of Jamaica.
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Dis-Honest Tea
Honest Tea is owned by Coca-Cola. And Coca-Cola spent $3.2 million to defeat GMO labeling laws in California and Washington State, some of that money illegally laundered through the Grocery Manufacturers Association (that anti-consumer group that has spent millions defeating GMO labeling laws, that has a bill in Congress to preempt state labeling laws, and has filed suit against…
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Big Food Produces “Illth” to Boost Profits
The New York Times has a great article by Mark Bittman in the Op-Ed Section. He writes about how Big Food is killing its customers in its quest to increase profits : You can buy food from farmers — directly, through markets, any way you can find — and I hope you do. But unless you’re radically different…
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Our Contribution To The Fossil Record
Originally posted on The Dish: Mother Earth has turned our plastic trash into a new type of stone: Most plastic in the ocean disintegrates into small pieces (which don’t go away, either), but some of it melts into “molten” plastic, and it fuses with all the regular, organic materials below it, forming a super-hard monolithic stone. It was…
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Moral Monday Shames North Carolina Legislature
Moral Mondays Shames NC Lawmakers, So They’re Restricting Statehouse Access (via http://crooksandliars.com) By karoli May 17, 2014 8:00 am – Comments North Carolina lawmakers announced strict new rules aimed at limiting Moral Monday protests, or even better, ending them. Conservatives in North Carolina really do not like the weekly protests in the state capitol…
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The Corbett Report: Ryan Grant Explains Distributism
I am not a regular listener of The Corbett report nor do I agree with all their views. However, they had an interesting interview with Ryan Grant, contributing editor of The Distributist Review to explore the philosophy of distributism and its attempt to create a decentralized economy based on the widespread distribution of private property. Show notes: The Distributist Review…
The Village Market 